UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active 1390s in Florence)

Story of the Chastelaine de Vergi

c. 1395
Fresco
Museo di Palazzo Davanzati, Florence

Painted high on the walls around a room in the Palazzo Davanzati, this fresco illustrates a thirteenth-century French chivalric romance, popular in Italy. The tragic tale tells of a secret love between the chastelaine (the wife of the lord of a castle) and a young knight.